Identifying future 'unexpected' survivors: A retrospective cohort study of fatal injury patterns in victims of improvised explosive devices

BMJ Open

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Singleton, James A G ^a,d   Gibb, Iain E ^b   Hunt, Nicholas C A ^c   Bull, Anthony M J ^a   Clasper, Jonathan C ^a,d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Defence Centre for Imaging   (United Kingdom)

^c Forensic Pathology Services   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLAST INJURY; BODY REGIONS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICES; EXPLOSIVE DEVICE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FUTUROLOGY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; MILITARY RESEARCH; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR; TIME OF DEATH; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNITED KINGDOM; WOUND;

EID: 84885361041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003130     Document Type: Article

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